Movie |
World War Ii | Based On True Story
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Top Ten Films | 1970
Best Sound Track | 1970 | Jim
Budget 12,000,000 USD
Sir Michael Caine initially thought he was too young to play a squadron leader. However, veterans of the battle told him he was actually too old for the part.
Many of the actors were too old to play pilots. In reality, the average age of a pilot during the Battle of Britain was only twenty.
The large number of aircraft collected for this movie made it the thirty-fifth largest air force in the world.
Adolf Galland, the Luftwaffe pilot who fought during Battle of Britain, who later became the youngest German General at the age of twenty-nine, was hired as a Technical Advisor.
Towards the end of the movie, a British Spitfire shoots down a German bomber, which then falls over central London before crashing into a railway station. This actually happened, (although the fighter used in the real incident was a Hurricane, not a Spitfire, and the bomber was a Dornier Do17 rather than a Heinkel 111). The R.A.F. pilot didn't shoot the bomber down, though. He had run out of ammo when he spotted the bomber apparently trying to attack Buckingham Palace. In desperation, he rammed the bomber, taking off the tailplane. The fuselage then crashed into Victoria Station. Incredibly, he managed to parachute to safety. His own plane rammed into the ground at three hundred fifty miles per hour. It was buried so deeply, that the authorities just left it there. In May 2004, the former R.A.F. pilot was on hand, as the remains of his aircraft were unearthed to make way for a new water main. Remarkably, part of the incident was captured on film, the tailplane fluttering down and the fuselage section (minus the wings outboard of the engines, which were torn off by aerodynamic forces) plummeting towards the ground.
"[Narration] Winston Churchill: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
"Baron von Richter: David, we are not asking for anything. Europe is ours, we can walk into Britain whenever we like. Sir David Kelly: If you think we're going to gamble on Herr Hitler's guarantees, you're making a grave mistake. All those years in England seems to have left you none the wiser. We're not easily frightened. Also we know how hard it is for an army to cross the Channel. The last little Corporal who tried came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall... and even then we won't listen."
